Updated 4th Grade CCSS and “I Can” Checklists

We have the updated 4th grade CCSS checklists you have been asking for!

Our common core standards checklists are just what you need to help you keep track of the standards taught in your classroom. Use these to make sure you are addressing all that you need to teach throughout the course of the school year. Keep track of when you have introduced, retaught and assessed each indicator.

The most important parts of the common core are the anchor standards that carry through from kindergarten to high school. These have been included with each language arts checklist so that you don’t lose sight of your essential goals for teaching and learning.

***Please keep in mind that these checklists are more to be used as a system of checks and balances in your teaching for the year and not so much a “check off” sheet for these indicators to be checked and thought of as “done”. You will be teaching so many of these concepts during your small groups and one-on-one conferencing each and every day.

You have your choice of an editable Excel spreadsheet to type your dates and/or notes in the boxes OR you can simply print the PDF and write in the boxes.

**Note – you may have to play around with your margins to get them to print just the way you want them.

The first two resources are the more in depth explanatory standards provided on www.corestandards.org. You may want to print them and keep them in the front of a data binder for reference.

The first set of checklists have been created using the 4th grade CCSS checklists as they are found on www.corestandards.org and a second resource has been created using the I Can statements we created. Choose whichever suits your needs the best!

You can download each set of resources by clicking on the links below:

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Thank you both for all you do and for sharing this wonderful tool. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but when I saved the Excel version for fourth grade and then opened it up, the words, Page 1, Page, 2, etc. keep showing up and I am not able to get rid of it. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Again, thanks for all of your efforts and for sharing this with fellow teachers!

Hi Joan! Have you tried clicking “View” at the top of each of the Excel sheet and then choose “Normal”? Let us know if this doesn’t work. Maybe we need to change the formatting on our end, save it and re-link it.

I am looking for an even more condensed version. I teach English as a Second Language and I am looking to align my objectives more with the standards. I am hoping to find the English Language Arts/Writing standards written on 1-2 pages. Do you have this available?

So sorry, Nikki. We don’t. No plans, as of right now, to create them either. If you find them somewhere else, please share with us so we can let other followers who are interested know where to find them. Thanks!

I have used your statements in my classroom for several years and love them. I felt like they have held me accountable. Now that we have moved away from common core, do you have a modified list? Thanks!

Hi Sandy! So sorry, but we do not have any new updates for our common core resources to support the changes that many states are implementing. Each state has its own unique standards and we would have to write the “I Cans” and create the checklists for each of the 50 states individually for the resources to be valid. Unfortunately right now that is not our focus. So very sorry. 🙁

Hi Sandra, The indicators are dark red, but the standards should all be in black. We looked through the PDFs and didn’t see any that were all red. Would you mind sharing with us where you saw some that were all red? Thank you!

These are amazing! I am an Educational Therapist for every grade k-12, and this REALLY simplifies the process of determining the standards my students need to achieve in each grade. Thank you so much!!! Is there a way to get the Excel docs to not be “protected” so I can copy and paste the standards into a tracking doc of my own?

Hi Jamie! So glad that you like our checklists. Because we have had to deal with people taking our work, changing the formatting a bit and selling them on TPT for a profit, we had to protect the documents. After getting advice from TPT, we placed our spreadsheets on that site in an unlocked version (to prove that we are the original authors) for a small price. Unfortunately, the ones on our site will remain locked, but fortunately you can get them to copy and paste in our TPT store. 🙂